Tony chats with Murtaza Ali, Co-Founder and CEO at Symphony, they have created a voice AI to build role plays to train insurance professionals. These fully dynamic voice AI agents can provide full conversations for practice, including on really complex conversations. Then it can analyze both the content and the emotional parts of the conversation.

Murtaza Ali: https://www.linkedin.com/in/-murtazaali/
Symphony: https://www.getsymphony.co/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/k6r3X69wdVw

Tony chats with Grace Hanson, Co-Founder and CEO at Elysian, they are an AI native TPA that handles claims end-to-end. They build the best tech and combine it with highly experienced adjusters and it results in better handling of commercial claims. The whole company and their processes are truly based on what adjusters really do and the way they really think.

Grace Hanson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-hanson/
Elysian: https://elysian.is/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/dfSH6G6Mtkc

Tony chats with Joseph Sigona, Head of Business Development at MGM Technology Partners, they bring complex scalable enterprise level applications to production. They can be the one stop shop in all of the pieces to get your application into production. From planning, to building, QA support, all the way through integration. Their Cosmo platform covers the whole value chain of insurance from risk management, through quoting, binding, and all the way through accounting, all in a modular format. Cosmo in built on the A12 platform, the product of 30 years of experience building enterprise level systems allowing you all of the flexibility you need, with less of the work.

Joseph Sigona: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joesigona/
MGM Technology Partners: https://www.mgm-tp.com/

Video version: https://youtu.be/Urzj9Nu3LlA

Brian Baughman, CPCU, ARM - ESOP Evangelist and VP of Sales at The Hartwell Corporation. We chat about why it makes sense for agencies to adopt an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and what the advantages are. All employees are automatically owners after roughly a year. This aligns incentives in a way virtually impossible in other types of ownership structures. A very interesting conversation! 

Brian Baughman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-baughman-cpcu-arm/
The Hartwell Corporation: https://www.thehartwellcorp.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/Zwb2At9v-ak

Tony chats with Chris Merideth, Candidate for Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner.

Chris Merideth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-merideth-a6b4a255/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/xrTdfGMQ4TQ

David Serna Perez, Account Executive at LivePerson, they are an AI native company that has developed two AI agent assistant for the underwriter. They are mainly focused on MGA and underwriting teams. One is focused on MGA underwriting teams and the other one is focused on reinsurance brokers and underwriters. A great conversation with an experienced AI practitioner who really gets insurance.

David Serna Perez: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-serna-perez-42825689/
LivePerson: https://www.liveperson.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/hkgQBYYpob4

Tony chats with Daniel Palacios, Co-Founder and CRO at Sytrex, they are an AI native company that has developed two AI Agents assistants for underwriters. They are mainly focused on helping MGA underwriting teams, basically co-pilots for insurance and reinsurance operations. They place underwriters in the center and take away the manual and boring repetitive work.

Daniel Palacios: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielpalaciossales/
Sytrex: https://www.sytrex.io/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/894J0dwi7O8

Tony chats with Charles Merritt, Co-Founder and CEO at Buddy, the insurance gateway for people who build software. They help product teams and developers that are being tasked with integrating insurance APIs and help accelerate distribution of digital insurance products.

Charles Merritt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesmerritt/
Charles first appearance on Profiles in Risk Ep. 298: https://youtu.be/IWI1zxTT6nM?si=yzwTpPQlDLtDFeKp
Buddy: https://www.buddy.insure/team

Video Version: https://youtu.be/jGAp09-Vhyw

Tony chats with Bill Martin, President & CEO at Plymouth Rock Home Assurance in a friendly debate about the merits of remote vs a full return-to-the-office (RTO).

Bill Martin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billmartiniv/

Tony chats with Nadav Interstein, VP of Marketing at Swifter.io, they started as a low-code no-code platform but they have now shifted and have aggressively focused on AI. Now they have created a software development life cycle tool that uses agentic AI to generate the entire software development life cycle process going from project definition all the way through wireframe, processes, actual code in the language you want, automated testing, and deployment. A to Z AI powered creation of enterprise level software for front-end.

Nadav Interstein: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadav-interstein-45118615/
Swifter.io: https://Swifter.io

Video Version: https://youtu.be/S0lqfKwJniY